Macmillan Co. v. King’s Empirical Analysis
223 F. 862 · 1914
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1983
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sampson & Murdock Co. v. Seaver-Radford Co. · Hansford v. Stone-Ordean-Wells Co. · Ladd v. Oxnard · Reed v. Holliday · G. Ricordi & Co. v. Mason
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the above conclusions are right, I am unable to believe that the defendant’s use of the outlines is any the less infringement of the copyright because he is a teacher, because he uses them in teaching the contents of the book, because he might lecture upon the contents of the book without infringing, or because his pupils might have taken their own notes of his lectures without infringing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcus v. Rowley
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.